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FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1901. No. 9. 



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CONTENTS. 



District Reports 

 Veterinary. 



Rinderpest Outbreak, by H. Watkins- 

 Pitchf. rd, F.R.C.V.S. 



Fungus Infection of Locusts. In- 

 spector Hutchinson's Report ... 



Locusts. Inspector Brown's Report 

 Agriculture. 



New Sugar Canes 



Sugar Mill Returns 



Manna 



Coast Fruit. Interview with Mr. H, 



W. James by " Ergales " 

 Bamboo, The... 



page. 

 260 



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268 

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259 

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283 

 287 



Sheep. 



Feeding with chaffed hay 



Fruit Culture. 



Winter Reminders, by Claude Fuller 

 Mlscellaneous. 



Eland Breeding 



Correspondence. 



Poap Solution for Locusts, F. Smallie 

 How to improve the " Journal," Geo. 

 J. Wood ... 



Market Reports 



page. 



260 



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 288 



Rinderpest, 



THE UMVOTI OUTBREAK. 



By H, Watkins-Pitcitford, F.R.C.V.S. 



IT will be reassuring to Colonists to 

 learn that up to date no further ex- 

 tension of this disease has been reported 

 from the scene of outbreak in the 

 Umvoti Valley. Every day which passes 

 adds to the sense of security, although it 

 will be some time I)efore we shall be able 

 to consider ourselves sufficiently "out of 

 the wood " to feel secure. Indeed, the 

 cause of the present outbreak of the 

 disease is so obscure as to- lend some 

 colour t^ the obsolete theory of the 

 Spontaneous Origin of Disease. It is a 

 curious coincidence that this fatal malady 

 should have again manifested itself in 

 Natal after an absence of some three 



years at the same time that it is showing 

 itself in other parts of South Africa. The 

 outbreak in this Colony, however, is as 

 yet happily much more limited in extent 

 than that in Basutoland and on the 

 borders of the Orange River Colony. The 

 fact of these outbreaks occurring at the 

 same time must somewhat shake the faith 

 of those who are asserted to still hold the 

 opinion that the present disease in Natal 

 has been incorrectly diagnosed. 



The action of the Government in not de- 

 stroying " root and branch " all animals, 

 both affected and in contact with the 

 disease, has been called in criticism. 

 While everything is to be said in favour 



